0.4.2|Dec 26, 2025
View on Steam↗v0.4.2: Shrooms Update
4/5 Significant
The Shrooms Update introduces magic mushroom cultivation, a new temperature system with AC units, and significant QoL improvements like object renaming and expanded cleaner capacity.
Key Changes
- 1New magic mushroom production chain including beds, spawn stations, and specialized tools.
- 2Temperature system implementation with AC units and growth speed boosts.
- 3Object renaming feature added to the management clipboard for better organization.
- 4Coca plant yield increased from 9 to 12.
- 5Cleaner capacity doubled from 3 to 6 trash cans.
- 6Cartel influence in Westville capped at 500/1000.
- 7Five new NPCs added, including four customers and Fungal Phil.
- 8Cartel dealers now take smoke breaks, creating ambush opportunities.
- 9Metric and imperial unit toggle added to display settings.
- 10Filing cabinets converted into functional item storage.
All Changes
🍄Production Systems(10)
- newshrooms: Added magic mushrooms as a new growable and sellable product.
- newmushroom bed: Added mushroom bed for cultivation.
- newmushroom spawn station: Added mushroom spawn station for production.
- newmushroom substrate: Added mushroom substrate as a production material.
- newspore syringe: Added spore syringe tool.
- newgrain bag: Added grain bag for mushroom growth.
- newshroom spawn: Added shroom spawn item.
- newspray bottle: Added spray bottle tool.
- newshroom introduction quest: Added shroom introduction quest to guide players through the new content.
- newshrooms: Added randomly spawning shrooms in the sewer for foraging.
🌡️Environmental Systems(4)
- newtemperature system: Added a comprehensive temperature system affecting plant growth.
- newAC unit: Added AC units to warm or cool specific areas.
- newtemperature system: Added a 'heatmap' visualization to monitor facility temperatures.
- buffplant growth: Plant growth speed can now be boosted by warm temperatures.
📋Management & UI(6)
- newmanagement system: Added the ability to rename stations, pots, and storage racks via the management clipboard.
- newunits setting: Added a 'units' setting to toggle between metric and imperial measurements.
- newmanagement system: Added a 'remove' button to object list entries in the management system.
- bufffiling cabinet: The filing cabinet can now be used as a functional storage container for items.
- newtap: Added an explanation message when a tap cannot be interacted with.
- newteleport command: Added teleport command to move directly to specific NPCs.
👥NPCs & Customers(9)
- newFungal Phil: Added Fungal Phil as a new NPC.
- newIrene Meadows: Added Irene Meadows as a new customer in the Uptown region.
- newKelly Reynolds: Added Kelly Reynolds as a new customer in the Docks region.
- newSherman Giles: Added Sherman Giles as a new customer in the Docks region.
- newBruce Norton: Added Bruce Norton as a new customer in the Downtown region.
- changecartel dealer: Cartel dealers now take smoke breaks, making them easier to ambush.
- changecustomers: Modified existing customer preferences to favor shrooms.
- changeNPCs: Pickpocket interaction is replaced with 'view inventory' if the NPC is unconscious.
- buffcartel goon: Added more random items to cartel goon inventories.
⚖️Balance & Gameplay(6)
- buffcoca plant: Coca plant yield increased from 9 to 12 (up to 18 with PGR).
- buffcleaners: Cleaners can now be assigned to 6 trash cans, up from 3.
- nerfcartel influence: Cartel influence in Westville is now capped at 500/1000; old saves will scale down automatically.
- changebotanists: Moved 'use drying rack' botanist behavior lower in the priority hierarchy.
- buffmoisture-preserving pot: Made the moisture-preserving pot slightly lighter.
- removeitem filter: Removed bomb from the item filter.
🔧Visuals & Technical(8)
- newshrooms: Added visual effects for shrooms.
- newcosmetics: Added mushroom hat and Santa hats for dealers.
- newvisual effects: Added dirt particles when soil is depleted and fully grown particles for coca plants.
- changevisuals: Improved material appearance for jars, baggies, brick wrapping, and additives.
- buffperformance: Optimized employee logic to reduce pathfinding calculations.
- buffperformance: Staggered tick functions to reduce recurring lag spikes.
- changetechnical: Refactored code for dealers, botanists, taps, and watering cans.
- fixtechnical: Added safety checks in loading code to prevent duplicate object or employee loading.
🐛Bug Fixes(22)
- fixcustomers: Fixed some customers having no favorite effects.
- fixmanagement clipboard: Fixed objects getting stuck highlighted when using the management clipboard.
- fixbuilding: Fixed built object initialization occurring twice.
- fixvisuals: Fixed pupil dilation not resetting after sobering up.
- fixgameplay: Prevented applying additives after a plant is fully grown.
- fixcoca plant: Fixed coca leaves falling behind the cauldron.
- fixmixing station: Fixed mixing station preview product appearance mismatch.
- fixmultiplayer: Fixed item instance data replication issues for joining clients.
- fixmanagement system: Fixed NPCField replication error in the management system.
- fixdelivery van: Fixed delivery vans not displaying items in the trunk.
- fixdrying rack: Fixed drying rack item alignment.
- fixperformance: Fixed excessive LODs on some lights.
- fixmanagement clipboard: Prevented opening/closing management clipboard during object selection or transit routing.
- fixvisuals: Fixed outline renderers getting occluded.
- fixNPCs: Fixed NPC combat behavior not resetting vision components.
- fixvisuals: Fixed first-person arms not synchronizing with skin color.
- fixfire station: Added missing collider to the fire station.
- fixUI: Fixed missing info on the Veeper's sale sign.
- fixtutorial: Fixed NPC schedules in the tutorial.
- fixNPCs: Fixed handlers preventing other NPCs from removing items from stations.
- fixUI: Fixed quest UI null reference and mixing station hints reappearing.
- fixprologue: Fixed a bug where the final prologue cutscene would get stuck.
Summary
Mushroom Cultivation
This update adds a complete production chain for magic mushrooms, positioned in the progression between meth and cocaine. Players can now utilize mushroom beds, spawn stations, and specialized tools like spore syringes and spray bottles. The process is fully integrated with the botanist employee role, and a new supplier in the downtown region provides the necessary materials.
Environmental Systems
A fundamental temperature system has been implemented. Players must now manage heat using AC units, which is critical for mushroom growth. Conversely, warm temperatures can be used to boost the growth speed of other plants. A new heatmap visualization tool helps players monitor their facility's climate.
Management & Quality of Life
Significant improvements have been made to facility management. Players can now rename individual stations and storage units via the management clipboard for better organization. Additionally, cleaners have seen a 100% capacity buff, and a new unit toggle allows for switching between metric and imperial measurements.
Balance & Technical Refinements
Coca production has been buffed with increased yields, while cartel influence in Westville has been capped to balance regional progression. The update also includes substantial code refactoring for employees and NPCs to improve pathfinding and reduce lag spikes.